Application Developer

Reporting to the Application Development & Support Manager

Based in: Wilton

Salary: Negotiable - Whilst all salaries are graded, Sembcorp are keen to attract, retain and develop the highest calibre of colleague. The company also offers a market leading benefits package and annual bonus.

Position overview:

Sembcorp Energy UK’s Application Developer (AD) is pivotal to the success of the UK business. The applications that SEUK has deployed operate and report on the key assets, underpinning SEUK’s entire business model. SEUK currently has legacy and COTS applications to support multiple business processes. We also develop bespoke applications which help us differentiate ourselves in the market, gain competitive advantage and support the organisation where functionality is either niche or specialist. The development, security and maintenance of these applications is paramount to the operation of this business.

SEUK has a large portfolio of web applications that need modernisation and enhancement. These applications are built on a variety of technologies such as .Net Framework (VB and C#) and classic ASP. These applications support a variety of business areas and underpin our business.

An Application Developer will be responsible for the delivery of all application enhancements, application support and application monitoring. They will work with our existing development team in redeveloping key business applications to bring them in line with modern technologies and a cloud first structure.

The AD will be responsible for selecting the right technologies in line with fiscal constraints. The AD will have responsibility of simplifying the current application base and ensuring users have the right technology to facilitate customer requirements. This will extend to data capture and storage technologies including the provision and management of Sembcorp UK historian services. The AD will develop APIs for the easy access of data across our Wilton business.

The AD will work with Application Development and Support Manager to define the right support model for all applications, where possible and to ensure an economy of scale the UK will use corporately brokered contracts and corporate systems. The AD will ensure that all relevant SLAs are met and adhered to.

A key area of the AD’s role will be to simplify the current software architecture within SEUK and utilise the application support team to deliver this. This will enable SEUK to operate and report on its assets with confidence. An important factor in this is to produce robust technical documentation covering all aspects of the applications utilised by SEUK’s operational department. This will enable clarity of business processes allowing easier support models.

SEUK’s Wilton business is currently using on-premise application solutions and the AD will be responsible for migrating these applications to an Azure cloud first solution. They will work with our Cloud Architect and our DevOps resource to migrate the applications to the cloud where possible.

The AD will work with the Application Development and Support Manager on operational asset data which will involve cataloguing and reporting on systems used with SEUK to operate its Wilton business. This will allow the AD to define an accurate list of operational data assets and their associated meta data. This will form the basis of accurately monitoring and reporting on Asset data throughout the Wilton business.

One of the most important aspects of the AD role will be to work with the application support team to enhance a change control process. This will enable the recording and reporting on changes made to applications and minimise risk to the business.

As the AD will be part of the application support team, they will also be responsible for software development, configuring and implementation of operational data repositories, reporting, documentation and maintenance of current applications within the Wilton business.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Continually look to refine and simplify application infrastructure and improve clarity of processes.
• To be responsible for creation and maintenance of technical documentation.
• To develop application monitoring and put in place appropriate alerting and ensuring this alerting is acted upon.
• Manage and maintain data repositories for Sembcorp’s operational data across Flex and Wilton businesses.
• Develop software architecture maps providing clarity to the business.
• Create and deploy reporting suite for D&T and the wider business to improve visibility on applications.
• Provide OOH support for Flex and Wilton Digital & Technology systems.
• Manage and maintain Wilton’s application services provided to the business.
• Ensure that the organisation has access to data and the skills to ensure that it can make use of information and data in a safe environment. Constantly look to build learning, skills and sharing knowledge with others.
• Migration of key Wilton applications to the cloud and archive any redundant applications.
• Work with the OT team to identify data sources across Wilton’s Asset base and bring these data sources into one central repository.
• Develop and enhance the current change control application to ensure the correct people are informed of any changes and full transparency of work being carried out by Digital & Technology.
• Work with the performance engineering team to ensure we have an accurate repository of data across both of our businesses.
• Development of APIs to improve the efficiency of our application development.

Qualification, Skills & Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or comparable industry certification with demonstrable experience.
• Strong written & verbal communication skills i.e. able to articulate at all levels to key stakeholders and relay complex information.
• Work with the multiple teams across the business to deliver application development and support and reporting solutions in line with requirements.
• Excellent documentation skills and a desire to map out new processes.
• Agile experience.
• Excellent knowledge in cloud computing and visualisation tools.
• .Net, Powershell, Python.
• Experience of Visual Basic and Classic ASP is desirable but not essential.
• Experience with Azure Logic apps and Power Apps is desirable but not essential.
• Strong SQL knowledge.
• Knowledge of GE’s Historian product and associated applications desirable.
• Team Lead experience desirable.

For more information on this opportunity please contact retained recruitment partner Aidan Antoniou at Imperial Recruitment Group.

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